To the honorable Senate and house of Representaives in Congress Assembled
Your Petitioners would respectfuly request of your honorably body to grant
^Establish^ a Mail route From Sycamore De Kalb County in the State of Illinois to
via south grove Lindenwood White rock Daysville [Oregin?] to to Mount Morris, thee times a week and back so as to connect the route from Chicago to Sycamore with the the Route From Sycamore
^Peru^ to Galena
| Names | ||
| Zelotes B. Mayo Post master Sycamore | ||
| E P Young | ||
| W [?] Dutton | ||
| Edward L. Mayo. | ||
| James Foster | ||
| John Goodman | ||
| Joseph Goodman | ||
| James Byers | P M South Grove | |
| Henry [Malordin?] | ||
| Wm P [De?] | ||
| James Byers Juno. | ||
| William M Byers | ||
| Reuel Thorp | ||
| C. B. Jarvis | ||
| P C Merryfield | ||
| James Quick | ||
| M Bowen | ||
| James M Collier | ||
| Nicholas [Franklin?] | ||
| David Cornell | ||
| Hiram Hudson | ||
| F. G. Petrie | Post Master Mount Morris | |
| Robert Fisher | ||
| James. M. Webb | ||
| Jonathan Knodle | ||
| David Gloss | ||
| Henry A [Neaff?] | ||
| [W Lager?] | ||
| John Bowden | ||
| Jonas Newcomer | ||
| Henry Prost | ||
| John Danilson | ||
| David Miller | ||
| Elias Williams | ||
| Walter Wilson | ||
| Giles. B. Roe | ||
| B. R. Parks | ||
| Robert Russell | ||
| Henry ^C^ [Middelkaupft?] | ||
| Wm H. Crowell | ||
| Davi A Elmore | ||
| S. G. Havermale | ||
| E B Kent | ||
| Jas H. B Royal. | ||
| Daniel J Holmes | ||
| A. H. Grover | ||
| H. R. Hunt | ||
| Wm, H, Ankey | ||
| E. C. [?] | ||
| J, C, Wilson | ||
| G. W, Murphey | ||
| R, Murphey | ||
| Newton Wilson | ||
| [?]. C. Stockstill | ||
| Samuel M. Fellows | ||
| E Baker | ||
| W S Blair | ||
| [?] A, Nix. | ||
| R, Chaney | ||
| E. F. Dutcher | ||
| John Philips | ||
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| J B Cheney | ||
| Wm Moore | ||
| E. W. Dutcher | ||
| C. D. Pratt | ||
| B. Church | ||
| Joseph Williams | Post Master Daysville | |
| L K Hawthorn | ||
| D B Stiles | ||
| Saml Jackson | ||
| [?] | ||
| Stephen Bemis | ||
| Wm [?] | ||
| John Carpenter | ||
| Wm Jackson | ||
| Wm J Keyes | ||
| Lyman Reed | ||
| Jehuel Day | ||
| Thomas Stinson | ||
| Calvin D Lackey | ||
| Hanron Rice | ||
| William Price | ||
| Benj Eyster | ||
| James Bloss | ||
| George Beckley. | ||
| Elijah. Dresser | ||
| L. P. Piper | P. M. Lindenwood | |
| M. H. Derrick | ||
| A. P. Baldwin | ||
| Wm Young | ||
| James. Simons | ||
| Miles G. Simons | ||
| S. D. Baldwin | ||
| [?] Bryan | ||
| Cheney Burdett | ||
| William J Parker | ||
| Deloss Will[?] | ||
| Freeman Fisher | ||
| B. M. Dayton | ||
| [?] | ||
| C H Jenks | ||
| John Jenks | ||
| John Dresser | ||
| H. E. Harlington | ||
| Lorenzo Hoadley | ||
| L P Burroughs | ||
| J Wm Burroughs | ||
| G F Burroughs | ||
| Lewis [Stocking?] | ||
| C P Burroughs | ||
| Calvin R Hoadly | ||
| Calvin Hamlin | ||
| David hamlin | ||
| [?] Georg C Hamlin | ||
|
Wm Somers
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| sycamore with the route from Peru | ||
| to Galena | ||
| Uriah C Roe | ||
| Charles C Noyce | ||
| E, P, Snow | ||
| James Moore | ||
| Daniel F Brandon | ||
| Winslow Norcutt | ||
| Levi [Dort?] | ||
| Gorge Wells | ||
| C P Bridge | ||
| Major D. Harding | ||
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| Jos Parker | ||
| Galusha Bridge | ||
| Henry M Nettelton | ||
| Wm [P?] Keyes | ||
| E. W. Stockes | ||
| C H Dayton | ||
| Saml Chancey | ||
| Robert, M, Barkley | ||
| Osburn Channy | ||
| Eli Channy | ||
| Peter Smith | ||
| Jacob Correll | ||
| William Chaney | ||
| S D Clark | ||
| A Lucas | ||
| A S Blakely | ||
| Sumner Brown | ||
| Wm Rice | ||
| M [?] Chesser | ||
| Martin Cambell | ||
| Edwin Rice | ||
| Richard Heays | ||
|
Hiram [ |
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| John Orbison | ||
| Henry Roberts | Thomas Conner | |
| Robert Rutledge | Septimus Bowers | |
| Philip R Burnett | Christian Lehman | |
| John M Hinkle | Robert Davis | |
| John B Snider |
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| [S, W,?] [Sainple?] | Allen Foote | |
| C F Emerson | Ernst T. Reiman | |
| Thos, [H?], Potwine | John Y Gale | |
| Samuel Roost | William Artz. | |
| Wm Busen | Benjamin Boyer | |
| Lemuel Wood | James Hatch [?] | |
| Wm S. Davis | Harvey. L. Wright | |
| M, T, Crowell | J. Austin | |
| John Hayes | John H. Rutledge | |
| John A[?] | L F Lighthizer | |
| [?] | A W Hart | |
| J S Woolly | John Timmerman | |
| Franklin Morrill | ||
| Hugh Rea | Chas W. Murtfeldt | |
| Ephram Ray | Richard [?] | |
| R [?] Rea | ||
| Daniel Etnyne | M. B. Light | |
| W D Snyder | C Williamson | |
| Ambrose Morton | Jona Butterfield | |
| Lemule Mulkins | Horace Grant | |
| C H Eastman | ||
| Benj Levingley | ||
| ztreW reteP | Peter Wertz | |
| E. S. Potter | ||
| Aaron Hoffman | ||
| John Stover | ||
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| Names | Ralph Chaney | |
| David Corsant | Act Snow | |
| Jas W. Johnston | R W Dayton | |
| James Keean | Jesse Conaway | |
| Patric Keean | ||
| James Dugger | ||
|
John[ |
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| Conrad [Eysander?] | ||
| Isaac Bledsoe | ||
| David Potter | ||
| Charles R Potter | ||
| Timothy [Eychaner?] | ||
| William Conaway | ||
| H D Lewis | ||
| John Eyster | ||
| Charles Slagle | ||
| [Jo?] Eyster | ||
| Wm. D. Squires | ||
| Henry H Patrick | ||
| Thos D James | ||
| Elias James | ||
| Henry Eychener | ||
| Allen Eychener | ||
| Wm Chaney | ||
| Chester Murphy | ||
| John Gibson | ||
| Augustus Austin | ||
| John Austin | ||
| Mason Taylor | ||
| Samuel Taylor | ||
| George Taylor | ||
| Hiram Wood | ||
| Abram Dayton | ||
| John Q Detwiler | ||
| John Grimes | ||
| Wm E Wade | ||
| P J Bunchell | ||
| G. W Thompson |
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Mr Wentworth presented a petition for a Mail Route From Sycamore, Coltonville, South-Grove,
Lindenwood, White Rock, Paine’s Point, & Daysville to Oregon to Mt Morris
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January 24, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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Referred to Com of P.O. & P R
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Wentworth
Handwritten Document Signed, 3 page(s), RG 233, Entry 367: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to Committees, 1847-1849, NAB,